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A number of fungi were isolated from oak timber from two ships which sank in the Baltic at the beginning of the 17th century. Fungi were found throughout the timber. One of the isolates, a species of Phoma isolated from the central parts of the timber, showed a distinct wood-decaying capacity, causing a kind of rot resembling soft rot. Bacterial deterioration of oak wood in aerobic culture solutions inoculated with scrapings from the submerged oak timber was observed.
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Boutelje, J.B., Kiessling, H. On water-stored oak timber and its decay by fungi and bacteria. Archiv. Mikrobiol. 49, 305–314 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00409753
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